Hate Crime 2016

This is a summary of the original Swedish Brå report 2017:11

• According to the Swedish Crime Survey 2016, which measures victimisation in 2015, approximately 145,000 individuals (1.9 per cent of the population, aged 16–79) were victims of a total of 255,000 xenophobic hate crimes over the course of 2015. Approximately 47,000 individuals (0.6 per cent of the population) were victims of a total of 81,000 anti-religious hate crimes, and approximately 23,000 individuals (0.3 per cent of the population) were victims of a total of 45,000 homophobic hate crimes. Compared to previous years, the level of victimisation can be viewed as relatively stable for all hate crime motives.
  
• According to the Politicians’ Safety Survey 2017, which measures victimisation in 2016, 6.9 per cent of all elected politicians11 who replied to the web survey reported having been victims of hate crime in their role as politicians in the year 2016.
• According to the School Survey on Crime 2015, which measures victimisation during 2015,
  5.8 per cent of the pupils who responded to the survey had been victims of
  a hate crime due to their Swedish or foreign background, of which 53 per
  cent had been victimised more than once.